ncurses or slang

Slava Zanko slavazanko at gmail.com
Wed Sep 23 13:45:05 UTC 2009


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Michail Vidiassov wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> what is the preferred screen output library in the
> upcoming mc 4.7 and current pre2?
> I.e. if one can install both ncurses and slang2 on his system
> what mc is to be compiled against, what branch is developed and tested
> more active, where are bugs fewer and features more abundant?

Preferred to S-Lang (as default), but Ncurses fully supported too.

With NCurses we have some restrictions (like trouble with drawing of
double lines for boxes). S-Lang is a more powerfull library.


WBR, Slavaz.


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